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C&T Publishing Artful Machine Embroidery Book- A Visual Guide to Creating Clothing You'll Love to Wear. Take your home embroidery machine into the world of high fashion and enhance your sewing projects turning them into wearable art that makes you look more beautiful. The author takes your through her principles of design and teaches you how to incorporate elements and principles like; line, motifs, pattern, texture, planes, color, repetition, rhythm, balance, proportion, movement, unity and harmony into your clothes. 96 pages in a soft cover plus a CD of embroidery design files.

• C&T Publishing Artful Machine Embroidery Book
• C&T Publishing Artful Machine Embroidery Book- A Visual Guide to Creating Clothing You'll Love to Wear.

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How to Use this Book

This resource tool offers you a complete overview of everything you need to create your own beautiful applique. Whether you’re a beginner, experienced, or looking for inspiration, you’ll find it here. Start with the essential tools and notions needed for applique, then step into hand and machine technique instructions, and follow up with design ideas and shapes. The applique patterns can be used for introductory practice and for a full-blown project. The patterns are a variety of design aspects—stacked, tucked, combination, and mixed technique—each with their own instructions for success.

Choosing Fabrics for Applique

The biggest problem we have in choosing fabrics for a quilt is that we don’t understand that there is another element to choosing fabrics besides color. Have you ever thought about the value of fabric? No, it’s not how much it costs. Value is the lightness or darkness of the color of the fabric and is the key to choosing all the fabrics for your quilts. Value will help separate the pieces of fabric so viewers can see a distinct pattern in the quilt. When your designs fall flat and disappear, it’s because the fabrics are too close in value, not because the colors are wrong.

Become an Applique Expert!

Once you learn the tips and tricks, you can make applique your favorite mixed media art. You’ll find that creating machine applique shapes using a fusible raw-edge allows you to create crisp curves and exact points. The quality of the materials that you use does make a difference in the outcome of a quilt. And finally, the steps to success are short and the more you practice, the better you get.